Stucco nail



J ne 7, 1927. 1,631,397

' c. E. BOWERS STUCGO N'AIL Filed March 15. 1926 INVENTOR- Cuuas f. Bow/86 ATTORNEY.

CLAUDE E. BOWERS, or Los enemas, CALIFORNIA.

srUcco nAIL.

Application filed. March 13, 1926.? seriai nofe as's.

ing netting secured thereto when the nail is driven into the wall'surface, and which is provided with means for securingthe netting against accidental displacement prior to the placement of the plaster coats.

Further objects and advantages will become apparent from the following specification reference being had to the accompany ing drawings, in which; Fig. l is a partial elevation of a frame building wall, parts being broken away to disclose the construction. i

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a nail showing the first step of securing the same to a wall.

7 initial position 7 ing the manner of automatically Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the sec ond step of securing the wire netting thereto.

Fig. 4 is a similar View with the nail forced into position, and in dotted lines its as shown in Fig. 2, illustratstretching the wire netting secured thereto.

Fig. 5 is another view showing the nail driven into position and the hook member bent over to hold the netting with a. plaster coat applied. I

Fig. 6 is an enlarged face view of a portion of a wall showing a nail driven into posit-ion and thenetting secured thereto.

Referring more particularly to the drawings it will be seen that the nail 5 is formed of a single piece of wire of suflicien'tly heavy gauge to insure a perfect nailing operation.

. The wall penetrating portion 6 is pointed to enable the same to be readily driven into place, andat the upper end of said portion the wire is bent downwardly at an angle to the penetrating substantially equal in length to portion 6,

the apex 8 of the angle thus formed by the said portions being .utilized for driving the penetrating portion 6 into the wall. At the outer end 9 of part 7 the portion to form a part 7 wire is bent to form a'short right angled portion-10. outer, end of this portion isagain bent. at'right j angles to form a. part 11 of alength substantially equal to the length of partlO, the outer end 9 of portion, 7, and' .the end.12

of portion 11 engaging thewall surface 13 when [the nail is placed in driving relation I thereto. The. wire at; the end of part 11' is again bent inwardly towards portion'll in the form of an acuteangle to provide a cei" hooked portion 14 for receiving the wire .3

netting'15therein, as shown in the various views o-ftlie drawings. V

securing plaster receiving wire netting in he abovedescribedlnail is designed for spaced relation to-the walls of frame building constructions, such walls 16 usually consisting of a base plate 17', studding l8, hav- 1 ing a coated building'paper 20 secured thereto. In securing the wire netting 15 in parallelspaced relation to the wall surface the chicken wire is then secured to the hooked ends of said row of nails at the-juncture 21 of two strands of wire. 22, 23, see Fig. (i the hook ends 14 being bent over the wires as in Fig. 5 to secure the same from acciden tal detachment. Another vertical row of nails are then driven a distance from the A length of" I workman first drivesinto position a verti- .cally disposed row ofnails. wire netting, such as the well known I first row about equal to the widthof' the netting 15, the hook of each nailbefore it is driven being hooked to a'portionof the wire in the manner heretofore described. *{As'the penetrating portion 6 is driven into the sheathing the portion 7 will be bent into substantially right angles'thereto and disposed parallel to' the sheathing surface, see Fig. 4. During the bending'of portion7,

the part 10 will be drawn upwardly into the position shown in full lines in Fig. 4:, the hooked ends 141 drawing the wire netting forwardlytowards the nail penetrating portion and ti 'htly stretching the same. Thismove ment of part 10 not only stretches the net ting which is important, but serves to bring the netting into uniform spaced relation" to the wall surface, so that thejplaster coat 2 1 will completely'embed the wire therein, as

shown in Fig. 5.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. As a new article ofmanufacture a single piece of wirebent to form a wall-engaging portion provided with a penetrating point and another portion disposed at an portion being substantially the same length as the Wall engaging portion, whereby the end of said last named portion Will rest against the Wall surface Whenthe'vv'all en'- gagingportion is driven into a Wall, and a third portion bent at an angle to said second named portion, the outer end of said portion being bent into hooked form.

2. A stucco nail consisting of a single piece of Wire provided with a Wall penetrating point and bent upon itself to form an angular portion, the pointed leg of the angle when driven into the Wall bending the other leg of the angle into a plane parallel with the Wall surface, that portion of the Wire eX- tending beyond the angular portion being 7 bent'to form a hooked Wire receiving end.

3. A stucco nail consistingof a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form an acute I angle, one leg of said angle forming awall engaging portion and being pointed, that portion of the Wire beyond the acute angular into the Wall the other leg of the angle will be bent to cause the hooked end to lie substantially parallel to and beyond the Wall surface.

4. .A stuceof nail comprising a single length of Wire bent intermediate its ends to form an angle less than a right angle, one of the legs of said angle being pointed for wall penetration, and a Wire engaging portion having a hooked end extending at an angle to the otherleg of the angle, whereby when the penetrating leg of the angle is driveninto a Wall the Wire engaging portion will be brought into substantially right angled relation to the Wall surface.

In witness that I ,clai1n the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 10th day of February, 1926.

CLAUDE Bewms, 

